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Research on the dynamic mechanism of digital economy system coupling to enhance urban ecological resilience

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Urban ecological environment resilience is an important characteristic that should be possessed in the process of urban development. It is conducive to coping with the challenges of multiple risks and disturbances such as climate change, resolving chronic pressure, improving the ability to resist disaster risk, self-adjustment, and recovery, to maintain the structure and function stability of the urban system. The digital economy is a new economic form caused by the new technological revolution, which may effectively promote economic ecology and ecological economization. We clarify the elements of the digital economic system, construct the coupling evaluation index system of “digital infrastructure-industrial digitization-digital industrialization,” and establish the coupling degree model to analyze the characteristics of the integration interaction, coordination, and self-organization of the digital economy subsystem. Based on emergency management theory, adaptive management concept, and resilient city theory, an evaluation index system is constructed from four levels of prevention, resistance, adaptation, and recovery to measure urban ecological resilience. Taking 278 cities in China from 2011 to 2021 as the research object, we established a spatial econometric model to explore the dynamic mechanism of digital economy system composition and coupling coordination to enhance urban resilience and summarize the theoretical model form. Based on this, we further propose countermeasures and suggestions for improving urban ecological resilience by using a digital economic system.

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The article is supported by the following foundations: National Natural Science Foundation (grant number: 72304250); Philosophical Social Planning of Zhejiang Province (grant number: 24NDQN093YB); and the General Funding Project of Social Science Research in Linping District, Hangzhou (grant number: Lpsk23C02).

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Zhang, X. Research on the dynamic mechanism of digital economy system coupling to enhance urban ecological resilience. Environ Sci Pollut Res 31, 22507–22527 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-32606-5

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